Jehovah’s Direction? Human Tradition/Culture?

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Who Are We Glorifying?

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Jesus Opposed Wastefulness

Jesus opposed wastefulness.

With their unnecessary, self-indulgent complexity, Chinese characters are wasteful. And since we are dedicated to Jehovah, the time and energy wasted are *Jehovah’s,* not just our own.

Use _Pīnyīn_ when you can; just use characters when you have to. pic.twitter.com/jkYcWGXRO8

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) December 4, 2023

Readiness to Follow Can Be Good, But Not Always

Readiness to follow the Japanese emperor & armed forces during World War II:
BAD

Readiness to follow Jehovah and his organization:
GOOD

Readiness to follow human traditions like those involving Chinese characters:
BAD

Readiness to use new, better ways to serve God:
GOOD pic.twitter.com/pekFXSpeAJ

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) October 11, 2023

Avoid Linguistic Idolatry!

Jehovah deserves from us Mandarin field language learners the best Mandarin-speaking ability we can cultivate.—Mal. 1:6–8.

To achieve this, avoid linguistic idolatry involving human-designed Chinese characters. Instead, use the abilities Jehovah built in to us to learn SPEECH. pic.twitter.com/JvyhCR6sms

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) March 16, 2023

Literal idolatry involves focusing on physical idols that are visible, instead of on the true God Jehovah, who is invisible.

Linguistic idolatry with Chinese characters involves focusing on these characters that are visible, instead of on Mandarin speech, which is invisible.

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) March 16, 2023

Whose Rules Are We Following?

By traditional Chinese rules, using _Pīnyīn_ when possible and not always using characters is “cheating”. But, who said we had to follow those rules?

JEHOVAH’s rules are that sanctifying his name and advancing Kingdom interests are the top priorities, not human traditions. pic.twitter.com/bCpWh5egRr

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) March 14, 2023